Word: aloofness
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Though the twins seem old, cold and aloof, one of them recently blew its top. Last Dec. 7, says Luyten, "the fainter of the two stars was seen to flare up suddenly to twelve times its normal brilliance and to subside again in less than 20 min utes, a phenomenon which, so far, is unique among stars . . . The atomic explosion . . . amounted to the equivalent of a billion atomic bombs of the Hiroshima type...
...capital is one of the world's most boring cities. It is a city of history, monuments and no industry. Its big men are strangers to it and to one another. Its natives live in it like caretakers in a museum, scornful of the gawking tourists, keeping aloof from the public gaze, resentful of being crowded, vaguely proud of the privilege of darting through the doors marked "private." It has no theater, little music, no night life of note, no distinguished restaurants. Washington society is an exhaustive effort of Washingtonians to have...
...follows in the official footsteps of other aloof, juridical Secretaries: John Hay, Elihu Root, Charles Evans Hughes, and like them has had extensive experience and a firm grasp...
Tall, pale octogenarian Gulbenkian is best known to Americans for the operations in Near Eastern oil (TIME, Nov. 15) which have made him one of the world's richest men. Impassive and aloof as the statuettes he collects, Gulbenkian neither confirms nor denies the stories that describe him variously as a descendant of Armenian kings, an ex-Turkish rug peddler, a lace merchant. He will say little more about his tastes in art, except that he has been collecting old masters, sculpture, rare books, Greek coins and Persian rugs since early in the century...
...Nock was a mysterious man. Not that he ever seemed to be one-the literary public knew him as an editor (the highbrowed, low circulation Freeman, 1921-24), an essayist of distinction, an authority on Rabelais, a biographer of Thomas Jefferson and Henry George. He wrote in an urbane, aloof style with an odd characteristic. At unpredictable points, caustic opinions on politics abruptly intruded, as if someone occasionally interrupted an hour of chamber music by reading well-written editorials from the Boston Evening Transcript. Editor Nock considered himself a radical...